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Growing Up

Alex de Jonge A Russian Schoolboy Sergei Aksakov (Oxford £4.50) When Professor Pnin used, as Nabokov put it, to 'get drunk on his private wines', one of the choicer vintages was......

Progressive

Anthony Quinton Public and Private Morality Edited by Stuart Hampshire (Cambridge £6.50) These six essays, all but two newly published, by five prominent moral and social......